Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
ISPs must get permission to share Internet users’ private browsing history: FCC
Broadband providers such as Comcast and AT&T will have to get customers' permission before they can share personal data with other companies, the FCC ruled Thursday, marking a major expansion of privacy protections and perhaps shifting the balance of power in the online marketplace. Published October 27, 2016
Jeh Johnson, DHS grant awards to life-saving employees, Syrian refugee office
The Secret Service agents who stopped an armed man trying to get onto the White House grounds in May were recognized Wednesday with Homeland Security valor awards. Published October 26, 2016
Sanctuary city illegal immigrant sparks $61 million fire in Sequoia National Forest
Angel Gilberto Garcia-Avalos had been deported five times in just the past four years, yet each time he has managed to sneak from Mexico back into the U.S., where he ended up in more mischief: driving without a license, attempted burglary and felony weapons charges. Published October 25, 2016
Joe Arpaio on the ropes as illegal immigrants join fight to oust ‘America’s toughest sheriff’
Maricruz Ramirez can't even vote, but she's doing everything she can to get others to turn out on Election Day to defeat Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Published October 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s top techie in State Dept pleads the Fifth
John Bentel, the man who oversaw then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's technology at the State Department, refused to answer questions about his knowledge of her activities in a sworn deposition Monday, according to Judicial Watch. Published October 24, 2016
Cost of citizenship to rise after the election
The cost of citizenship is going up -- after the election. Published October 24, 2016
Trump campaign says Clinton-linked donations show ‘corruption’ at FBI
Donald Trump's campaign called for the FBI to explain itself Monday after reports that a top Clinton family political ally authorized more than $600,000 in campaign contributions to the wife of an FBI official who helped investigate Hillary Clinton's secret email account. Published October 24, 2016
Huma Abedin told Clinton her secret email account caused problems
Hillary Clinton's secret email account caused her to miss a call, apparently to the French foreign minister, according to newly released emails Friday that showed the then-secretary of state frustrated by the system she had established. Published October 21, 2016
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton financial plans panned by budget watchdogs
Pundits may debate the winner of Wednesday's debate but the loser would appear to be the government's fiscal future, with neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton willing to budge from the plans that analysts have said would throw the country's finances over a cliff. Published October 20, 2016
Sheriff Joe Arpaio headed for big loss in Arizona, poll shows
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is headed for a staggering defeat in his bid for a seventh term at top law enforcement officer in Maricopa County, Arizona, according to a new poll Thursday that shows him trailing his Democratic challenger by 15 percentage points. Published October 20, 2016
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton clash on policy, personality in final debate
Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of being "a puppet" for Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged voters to send a signal in this presidential election by rejecting the kind of candidate who has been accused of demeaning and assaulting women, mocking the disabled and inciting violence, as the two candidates faced off in their final debate. Published October 19, 2016
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton duck hard bargain to save Social Security
Pundits may debate the winner of Wednesday's debate but the loser would appear to be the government's fiscal future, with neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton willing to budge from the plans analysts have said would leave the country's finances headed for a cliff. Published October 19, 2016
Donald Trump refuses to agree to accept results of election
Donald Trump refused Wednesday to commit to accepting the results of the November election, saying there's too much evidence of fraud for him to be sanguine. Published October 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton says Trump ‘choked’ on his border wall
Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of hiring illegal immigrants for his own businesses, and said he "choked" in his meeting with the Mexican president over building a border wall, as the two presidential candidates faced off in their third debate Wednesday. Published October 19, 2016
Donald Trump says his justices will overturn Roe v. Wade abortion decision
Donald Trump told voters the Supreme Court is "what it's all about" in this election as he and Hillary Clinton squared off for their final debate ahead of the election, vowing to appoint justices who would be conservative and would overturn the Roe v. Wade abortion decision. Published October 19, 2016
Demand Progress posts Congressional Research Service reports
A guerrilla group of open-records activists struck a major blow for sunshine in government Wednesday when it posted more than 8,200 reports from the Congressional Research Service, Capitol Hill's nonpartisan think tank whose research is usually closely guarded. Published October 19, 2016
Iraqi refugee admits terrorist intentions in black eye for Obama’s resettlement program
A man who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Iraq admitted in court papers Monday that he taught himself to build detonators for improvised explosive devices, trained to use automatic rifles and plotted to sign up as a martyr for the Islamic State group. Published October 18, 2016
‘Dreamers’ under Obama immigration amnesty find better jobs, business opportunities: Report
Illegal immigrant Dreamers -- those who signed up for President Obama's 2012 deportation amnesty -- have experienced dramatically improved lives, with most telling researchers in a report released Tuesday that they have found better jobs and a striking number saying they have started their own businesses. Published October 18, 2016
Social Security benefits to rise 0.3 percent in 2017
Social Security beneficiaries will see only a small automatic cost-of-living increase of three-tenths of a percent next year, the agency announced Tuesday, as a still-struggling economy held down inflation. Published October 18, 2016
WikiLeaks breach shows John Podesta’s veep list for Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton's campaign team considered naming Bill Gates or Melinda Gates as her nominee for vice president -- two of nearly 40 names on the initial long-list submitted by campaign chief John Podesta, according to hacked emails released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday. Published October 18, 2016
